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Deny self, for self's sake. 

The noblest question in the world is, What good can I do 
in it? 



JANUARY 

But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander 
time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 



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JANUARY 

FIRS T 

Resolve to perform what you ought; 
perform without fail what you resolve. 



SECOND 



Drink water. 



THIRD 



He that idly loses five shillings' worth 
of time loses five shillings, and might as 
prudently throw five shillings into the sea. 

FOURTH 

Industry pays debts, while despair in- 
creased them. 

F I F T H 

We may give advice, but we can not 
give conduct. 






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JANUARY 



SIXTH 



Necessity never made a good bargain. 





SB VENTH 

If you would have a faithful servant, 
and one that you like, serve yourself. 

EIGHTH 

Three may keep a secret, if two of 
them be dead. 

NINTH 

They that will not be counselled can 
not be helped. 

TENTH 

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep 
thee. 



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JANUARY 

ELE VENT H 

When the well is dry, they know the 
worth of water. 

TWELF T H 

If you would know the value of money, 
go and try to borrow some. 

T H I R T E E NTH 

An old young man will be a young old 
man. 

FPU RTE EN T H 

It is easier to build two chimneys than 
to keep one in fuel. 

F I F T E EN T H 

Add frugality, if we would make our 
industry certainly successful. 





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JANUARY 

SIXTEENTH 

He that can have patience can have 
what he will. 

S E VENTEENTH 



It is prodigious the quantity of good 
that may be done by one man, if he will 
make a business of it. 

EI G H TEEN T H 





A man's own care is profitable. 



NINE TEENTH 

Covetousness is ever attended with 
solicitude and anxiety. 

TWENT I E T H 

To bear other people's afflictions, 
every one has courage enough and to 
spare. 



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JANUARY 

TWENTY- FIRS T 


There are lazy minds as well as lazy 
bodies. 

TWENTY- SEC O ND 

Wealth is not his that has it, but his 
that enjoys it. 

TWENTY-THIRD 



Always taking out of the meal tub and 
never putting in soon gets to the bottom. 

TWENTY-F O U R TH 

Creditors have better memories than i 
debtors. 

TWENTY- FI F TH 

Avoid extremes. 

TWENTY- S I XT H 

In the affairs of this world men are 
saved, not by faith, but by want of it. 




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JANUARY 

TWENTY- SE VENTH 

What vast additions to the conven- 
iences and comforts of living might 
mankind have acquired, if the money 
spent in war had been employed in 
works of public utility. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH 



A ploughman on his legs is higher 
than a gentleman on his knees. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



Grace thou thy house, and let not that 
grace thee. 

THIRTIETH 

Not to oversee workmen is to leave 
them your purse open. 

TH I R TY - FIRS T 



Be not disturbed at trifles. 



FEBRUARY 



The most acceptable service of God is the do- 
ing good to man. 



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FEBRUARY 



FIRS T 



Diligence is the mother of good luck. 



SECOND 



Because they look pretty, how many 
want to have them ! 



THIRD 



The stars are seldom disappointed. 

FO U R TH 

Pride meets with provocations and 
disturbances upon almost every occa- 
sion. 

F I F TH 




Sal laughs at everything you say; 
why ? because she has fine teeth. 





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FEBRUARY 



SIX T H 



Love well, whip well. 



S E YEN TH 



Tolerate no uncleanliness. 



EIGHTH 





My father convinced me that nothing 
was useful which was not honest. 

NINTH 

A man may, if he knows not how to 
save as he gets, keep his nose all his life 
to the grindstone. 

TENTH 

Keep your eyes open before marriage, 
half-shut afterwards. 



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FEBRUARY 

ELE VENTH 

Experience keeps a dear school, but 
fools will learn in no other. 

TWELF TH 



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Happy that nation, fortunate that age, 
whose history is not diverting. 



TH I R TEEN TH 



Search others for their virtues, thyself 
for thy vices. 



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FOUR TEENTH 



Learn to be quiet and respect each m 
other's rights. 



F I F TEENTH 



In this country we are not so afraid of ' 
being laughed at. 




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FEBRUARY 

SIXTEENTH 

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the 
graces and beauties of virtue. 

SEVENTEENTH 

By diligence and patience the mouse 
ate in two the cable. 

EIGHTEENTH 

It is of the essence of envy to be un- 
easy and disquieted. 

NINE TEENTH 

As we must account for every idle 
word, so we must for every idle silence. 

TWENTI E TH 
Let thy discontents be thy secrets. 



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FEBRUARY 
TWENTY- FIRS T 

Want of care does us more damage 
than want of knowledge. 

TWENTY- SECOND 



If you would be wealthy, think of sav- 
ing as well as getting. 

TWENTY-T H I RD 



As to old age, it will be incurable this 
year, because of years past. 




TWENTY - F O U RT H 

Tricks and treachery are the practice 
of fools that have not wit enough to be 
honest. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 




Avoid trifling conversation. 



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FEBRUARY 





TWENTY- SIXTH 



Silks and satins, scarlet and velvets, 
put out the kitchen fire. 



TWENTY- S E VENTH 

Let thy handmaid be faithful, strong, 
and homely. 

TWENTY- EI G H T H 



Forbear resenting injuries as much as 
you think they deserve. 



TWENTY-NINTH 



Those have a short Lent who owe 
money to be paid at Easter. 



MARCH 

All true happiness, as all that is truly beautiful, 
can only result from order. 



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MARCH 



FIRS T 



Opportunity is the great bawd. 

SECOND 

We know not how soon we may have 
a fresh occasion for friends, for credit, 
and for reputation. 

THIRD 



I found myself obliged to comply, con- 
vinced of the folly of being on bad terms i— 




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FOUR T H 

The eye of a master will . do more 
work than both his hands. 

F I F T H 

It is foolish to lay out money in a pur- 
chase of repentance. 





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MARCH 



SIX T H 





Hard names and many were bestowed 
on me. 

5 E VBNTH 

Whenever we attempt to amend the 
scheme of Providence, we had need be 
circumspect, lest we do more harm than 
good. 

EI G H T H 

It would not be altogether absurd if a 
man were to thank God for his vanity 
among the other comforts of life. 

NINTH 

Let thy child's first lesson be obedi- 
ence, and the second will be what thou 
wilt. 

TENTH 

Remember that credit is money. 



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MARCH 



ELE VENT H 



There are no gains without pains ; then 
help, hands, for I have no lands. 



TWE LF T H 



The way to wealth, if you desire it, is •§ 
as plain as the way to market. 



TH I R TEE NTH 

Don't throw stones at your neighbors, 
if your own windows are glass. 

FOUR T E E NTH 

A man must have a great deal of 
vanity who believes, and a good deal of 
boldness who affirms, that all the doc- 
trines he holds are true, and all he 
rejects are false. 

F I F TE E NTH 

There are numbers, who, perhaps, fear 
less the being in hell than out of fashion. 






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MARCH 



SIXTEENTH 



If you can gain the great to an exem- 
plary life, wonderful changes will follow 
in the manners of the lower ranks. 

5 E VENTEE N T H 



Form the pronunciation of youth on 
the best models. 

EIGHTEENTH 





I would rather have it said, He lived 
usefully, than, He died rich. 

NINE TEENTH 

Ignorance is often attended with cre- 
dulity when knavery would mislead it, 
and with suspicion when honesty would 
set it right. 

TWENTIE TH 

Fondness for ourselves, rather than 
malevolence to others, I take to be the 
general source of censure and backbiting. 



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MARCH 

TWENTY- FIRS T 

Ideas will string themselves, like ropes 
of onions. 

TWENTY- SECOND 

Not being used to liberty, they know 
not how to make a modest use of it. 

TWENTY-THIRD 

Wise and good men are the strength 
of a state. 

TWENTY- F O U RTH 

If you will not hear Reason, she will 
surely rap your knuckles. 

TWENTY- F I F TH 

He that possesses anything he has 
bought, pays interest for the use of it. 

TWENTY- SIXTH 

The greater the common fashionable 
expense of a rank of people, the more 
cautious they are of marriage. 






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MARCH 

TWENTY- S E VENTH 

Eat not to dullness ; drink not to ele- 
vation. 

TWENTY- E I G H TH 



To distress is to weaken. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Those who can not get land must 
labor for those who have it. 

THIRTIETH 




He that by the plough would thrive 
Himself must either hold or drive. 

TH I R TY - FIRS T 



She that will eat her breakfast in her 

bed, 
And spend the morn in dressing of her 

head, 
And sit at dinner like a maiden bride, 
And talk of nothing all day but of pride ; 
God in his mercy may do much to save 

her, 
But what a case is he in that doth have 

her! 



APRIL 



Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in chang- 
ing. 



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APRIL 



FIRST 



He has paid dear, very dear, for his 
whistle. 

SECOND 

Buy what thou hast no need of, and 
ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. 

THIRD 

Continual dropping wears away 
stones. 

FO U R TH 

The riches of a country are to be 
valued by the quantity of labor its inhab- 
itants are able to purchase. 

F I F TH 

Sloth shortens life. 




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SIXTH 

Many estates are spent in the getting, 
Since women for tea forsook spinning and 

knitting, 
And men for punch forsook hewing and 

splitting. 

SEVENTH 



The public money, raised from all, 
belongs to all. 



EIGHTH 



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Employ thy time well if thou meanest 
to gain leisure. 

NINTH 

Most people dislike vanity in others, 
whatever share they have of it them- 
selves. 

TENTH 




^ Many have been ruined by buying 

^ I good pennyworths. 



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APRIL 



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ELE VENTH 



There are three faithful friends, an old 
wife, an old dog, and ready money. 

TWELF TH 



Plough deep while sluggards sleep, 
and you shall have corn to sell and keep. 

TH I R TEENTH 

Never making a St. Monday recom- 
mended me to the master. 

FO UR TEENTH 

One sword often keeps another in the 
scabbard. 

F I F TEENTH 




He that lives upon hopes will die fast- 
ing. 





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APRIL 



SIXTEENTH 



Those who have much business must 
have much pardon. 

S E VENTEENTH 

Talents for the education of youth are 
the gift of God. 

EI G H TEENTH 





Having plenty of merit in himself, he 
was not jealous of the appearance of 
merit in others. 

NINE TEENTH 

I should have no objection to a repeti- 
tion of life from the beginning, only asking 
the advantages authors have in a revised 
edition to correct some faults in the first. 

TWENTI E TH 
God heals; the doctor takes the fee. 



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APRIL 



TWENTY- FI RS T 



It is a long peace, indeed, as well as a 
long lane, that has no ending. 



TWENTY- SECOND 



Ambition has its disappointments to 
sour us, but never the good fortune to 
satisfy us. 



TWE NTY-T H I RD 



Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than , 
labor wears. 




TWENTY- F O U R TH 

Creditors are a superstitious set, great 
observers of set days and times. 

TWENTY- F I FT H 

If you would have your business done, 
go ; if not, send. 





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APRIL 



TWENTY- SIXTH 



In this world nothing is certain but 
death and taxes. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 



Nothing gives an author so great 
pleasure as to find his works respectfully 
quoted by others. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 




Opinions should be judged of by their 
influences and effects. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



The fewer our old friends become, the 
more let us love one another. 

THIRTI E TH 




He that goes a- borrowing goes a- 
sorrowing. 






MAY 



Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by 
other men, but a right that belongs to us by the 
laws of God and nature. 



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MAY 



FIRS T 



Three removes are as bad as a fire. 
SECOND 

I never saw an oft-removed tree 
Nor yet an oft-removed family 
That throve as well as those that settled 
be. 



THIRD 

I had a tolerable character to begin 
with; I valued it properly, and deter- 
mined to preserve it. 

FO U RTH 
There are croakers in every country. 

F I F TH 
God gives all things to industry. 




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MAY 



SIXTH 



Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, 
and a great deal more saucy. 



SB VB NTH 



This year the stone blind shall see but 
very little. 



EIGHTH 



Since thou art not sure of a minute, 
j throw not away an hour. 





NINTH 

All wars are follies, very expensive and 
very mischievous ones. 

TENTH 

He always speaks the thing he means, 
which he is never afraid or ashamed to 
do, because he knows he always means 
well. 



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MAY 



ELEVENTH 



The passions can never fix us in a 
proper composure and acquiescence of 
mind. 

TWELF TH 

Women and wine, game and deceit, 
Make the wealth small and the want 
great. 

THIRTEENTH 
The sleeping fox catches no poultry. 

FOUR T E E NTH 

I am apt to speak in the singular 
number. 

FIF TEENTH 

It is no more in a man's power to 
think than to look like another. 






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MAY 



SIX TEEN T H 



Scandal, like other virtues, is in part 
its own reward. 

S E VENTEENTH 



The used key is always bright, as Poor 
Richard says. 



EI G H TEENTH 




There should be a mutual dependence 
between governors and governed. 

NINE TEENTH 

Small things appear great to those in 
small circumstances. 

TWENTI E TH 




To receive credit and character as a 
tradesman, I took care not only to be 
in reality industrious and frugal, but to 
avoid all appearances to the contrary. 



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MAY 



TWENTY- FIRS T 



I thought so meanly of him for it, that, 
when I afterward came into his situation, 
I took care never to imitate it. 



TWENTY-SECOND 

I never was without some religious 
principles. 



TWE NTY-T H I RD 



He that would thrive must ask his wife. 
TWENTY- F O U R T H 

These might all be good things, but ^ 
they were not the kind of good things I s 
expected. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 



I wished to live without committing a 
fault 









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MAY 



TWENTY- SIXTH 



It is certain that no country in the 
world produces naturally finer spirits 
than ours. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 



Let the fair sex be assured that I shall 
always treat them and their affairs with 
the utmost decency and respect. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 




Heavy taxes tend to diminish a people. 

TWENTY-NINTH 




The day comes around before you are 
aware. 

TH I R TIE T H 

At a great pennyworth pause a while. 

TH I R TY- FIRS T 

One to-day is worth two to-morrows. 






JUNE 

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, 
glorious, and happy. 






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JUNE 



FIRS T 



Drive thy business, let not that drive 
thee. 

SECOND 

Libraries have improved the general 
conversation of the American, made the 
common tradesmen and farmers as in- 
telligent as most gentlemen from other 
countries, and perhaps have contributed 
in some degree to the stand so generally 
made through the country in defence of 
their privileges. 

THIRD 

Long habits of virtue have a sensible 
effect on the countenance. 

FOURTH 

Laziness drives so slowly that Poverty 
soon overtakes him. 






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JUNE 



FIFTH 



While you live expense is constant 
and certain. 

SIXTH 





When you have bought one fine thing 
you must buy ten more. 

S E VENT H 

Take care of yourself. Your life is a 
valuable one. 

EI G H TH 

Hope of being free from care and labor, 
with fear of penury, are the mainsprings 
of most people's industry. 

NINTH 

Visit seldom, and tarry but a little 
while in a place. 



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JUNE 



TENTH 



Virtue is the best guard against the 
many evils incident to us. 

ELE V E NTH 

Vital religion has always suffered § 
when orthodoxy is more regarded than 
virtue. 

TWELF TH 



What great difference can there be 
between putting yourself up, or putting 
your neighbor down? 




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TH I R TEE NTH 



There are little follies in the behavior 
of most men which their best friends are 
too tender to acquaint them with. 

FOUR TEENTH 



An author, as such, ought to be tried 
by the merit of his productions only. 





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JUNE 



FIF TBENTH 



There seems to be some peculiar 
charm in the conceit of finding money. 



SIXTEENTH 



He is no clown that drives the plough, 
but he that does clownish things. 

S E VENTEENTH 





. How many impertinences do we daily 
suffer with great uneasiness, because we 
have not courage enough to discover 
our dislikes? 

EI G H TEENTH 

Few are against me but those who 
have reason to fear me. 

NINE TEENTH 

What misfortune in your pleasures has 
sent you to philosophy for relief? 



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JUNE 



TWBNTIE T H 



Money can beget money. 

TWENTY- FIRS T 

Forage and want save while you may; 
No morning sun lasts the whole day. 

TWENTY- SECOND 



What maintains one vice would bring 
up two children. 

TWENTY-THIRD 



At the last day we shall not be ex- 
amined for what we thought, but what we 
did. 

TWEN TY- F O U RTH 




He only loves himself well who rightly 
and judiciously loves himself. 

TWEN TY- F I FT H 



As to going on petty errands, no boys 
love it, but all must do it. 





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JUNE 



TWENTY- SIXTH 



Don't you know that all wives are in 
the right? 

TWENTY- S E VENTH 

Self-denial is really the highest self- 
gratification. 

TWENTY- E I G H TH 




It was about this time I conceived the 
| bold and arduous project of arriving at 
moral perfection. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

Natural good and evil are pleasure 
and pain ; moral good and evil are pleas- 
ure and pain produced with intention and 
design. 

THIRTIETH 




Beware of little expenses. 



JULY 



A new truth is a truth; an old error is an 
error. 



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JULY 



FIRS T 



Leisure is time for doing something 



useful. 



SECOND 



Lying rides upon Debt's back. 



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Industry need not wish. 



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FOURTH 



They that can give up essential liberty 
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve 
neither liberty nor safety. 



F I F TH 



All property seems to me to be the 
creature of public convention. 




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JULY 



SIXTH 



We may dislike things that are never- 
theless right in themselves. 



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SB VENTH 

Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. 

EIGHTH 

Never leave that till to-morrow which 
you can do to-day. 

NINTH 

Life, like a dramatic piece, should not 
only be conducted with regularity, but 
it should end handsomely. 

TENTH 

He can have no rights to the benefits 
of society who will not pay his club to- 
wards the support of it. 



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JULY 



ELEVENTH 



It is easier to suppress the first desire 
than to satisfy all that follow it. 

TWELF TH 

Remember that money is of the pro- 
lific, generating nature. 

THIRTEENTH 

Who has deceived thee as oft as thy- 
self? 

FO U RT E E NTH 

I made the greater progress from that 
greater clearness of head and .quicker 
apprehension which usually attend tem- 
perance in eating and drinking. 

F I F TEENTH 

We should not suffer pride to prevent 
our progress in science. 






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JULY 



SIXTEENTH 



His great excellence lay in a sound 
understanding and solid judgment in pru- 
dential matters, both public and private. 

S E VENTEENTH 



Industry, frugality, and prudent econ- 
omy in a wife are a fortune. 



EI G H TEEN T H 




^ What is wit, or wealth, or form, or 



learning, when compared to virtue ? 

NINE T E E NTH 

There are none without their faults ; 
no, not one. 

TWE NT I E TH 




The ideas of aggrandizement by con- 
quest are out of fashion. 






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JULY 



TWENTY- F I R S T 



If you can perceive the fruit to be 
good, don't terrify yourself that the tree 
may be evil. 

TWENTY- SECOND 

He that riseth late must trot all day, 
and shall scarce overtake his business at 
night. 

TWENTY-T H I RD 

Above all things I dislike family quar- 
rels. 

TWENTY- F O U R T H 

Rather go to bed supperless than rise 
in debt. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 

I escaped being a poet, most probably 
a very bad one. 






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JULY 



TWENTY- SIXTH 




Happiness in this life depends rather 
upon internals than externals. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

Pride is the ground floor ; Hope is up 
one pair of stairs. 

TWENTY- EI G H TH 

The world is too full of compliments 
already. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



Conversation warms the mind. 

TH I R TIE TH 

Remember Job suffered and was af- 
terwards prosperous. 

TH I R TY- FIRS T 




The event God only knows. 



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AUGUST 

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and 
justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 



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AUGUST 



FIRS T 



Whenever we attempt to amend the 
scheme of Providence, we had need be 
circumspect, lest we do more harm than 

good. 

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SECOND 



Many people lead bad lives that would 
gladly lead good ones, but do not know 
how to make the change. 



THIRD 

Sloth makes all things difficult. 
FO U RTH 

Get what you can, and what you get hold ; 
Tis the stone that will turn all your lead 
into gold. 

F I F TH 
The cat in gloves catches no mice. 




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AUGUST 



SIXTH 



It has been a pleasure to me to see 
good workmen use their tools. 

SB V E NTH 

Most people have naturally some vir- 
tues, but none have naturally all the 
virtues. 

EIGHTH 





There is no rank in natural knowledge 
of equal dignity and importance with 
that of being a good parent, a good child, 
a good husband or wife, a good neighbor 
and friend, a good subject or citizen. 

NINTH 

Pride is a folly soon punished. 

TENTH 

I never doubted the existence of the 
Deity, that he made the world, and 
governed it by his Providence. 



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AUGUST 



ELE VENTH 



Good wives and good plantations are 
made by good husbands. 

TWELF TH 

Luxury should never be suffered to 
become common. 

TH I R TEENTH 




A man is sometimes more generous 
when he has little money than when he 
has plenty, perhaps through fear of being ^ 

thought to have but little. 

FO U RT E E NT H 

Trust betrayed is trust bestowed. 

F I F TEENTH 

I love to hear of every good thing that 
tends to increase the number of good 
people. 




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AUGUST 



SIX TE E N TH 



Health of body is not sufficient to 
make us happy of itself. 

S E VENTEENTH 

Cut off all unnecessary actions. 

El G H TEENTH 

Plain honest truth is not the character 
of a compliment. 

NINE TEENTH 





Idleness and pride tax with a heavier 
hand than kings and parliaments. 

TWENTI E TH 

The mob hate instruction. 

TWENTY- EI RS T 

Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore. 



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AUGUST 

TWENTY- SECOND 

There was never yet a truly great man 
who was not at the same time truly 
virtuous. 

TWE NTY-T H I RD 



No man who can have a piece of land 
of his own, sufficient by his labor to sub- 
sist his family in plenty, is poor enough 
to work for a master. 

TWENTY - F O U R T H 



Fools make feasts and wise men eat 
them. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 



A life of leisure and a life of laziness 
are two things. 

TWE NT Y- SIXTH 





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Many, without labor, would live by $^ 
their wits only, but they break for want 
of stock. 





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AUGUST 

TWENTY- S E VENTH 

Speak not but what may benefit others 
or yourself. 

TWENTY- EI G H TH 

Be little burdensome and essentially 
. useful to friends. 




TWENTY-NINTH 



He that hath a trade hath an estate. 



TH I R TIE TH 



A small leak will sink a great ship. 



TH I R TY- F I RS T 



The great body of intelligence among 
our people surrounds and overpowers 
our petty dissensions. 




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The proof of gold is fire; the proof of a 
woman, gold; the proof of a man, a woman. 



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SEPTEMBER 



FIRS T 

Virtue is the best preservative of 
health. 

SECOND 



What we call time enough always 
proves little enough. 

THIRD 

At the working-man's house hunger 
looks in but dares not enter. 

FOUR T H 



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He that hath a calling hath an office 
of profit and honor. ! 



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Let no man flatter the age with pre- 
tending that we have arrived at a perfec- 
tion of discoveries. 







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SEPTEMBER 



SIXTH 



While my care was employed in guard- 
ing against one fault, I was often sur- 
prised by another. 




S E V E N T H 



Pride that dines on vanity sups on 
contempt. 




EI G H T H 

He wished to please everybody; and, 
having little to give, he gave expectations. 

NINTH 

The foolish part of mankind will make 
wars from time to time with each other, 
not having sense enough otherwise to 
settle their differences. 

TENTH 

We ought always to do what appears 
best to be done, without much regarding 
what others may think of it. 



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SEPTEMBER 
E LB VBNTH 

You may have an opportunity of assist- 
ing with an equal sum a stranger who 
has equal need of it. Do so. By that 
means you will discharge any obligation 
you may suppose yourself under to me. 
Enjoin him to do the same upon .occa- 
sion. By pursuing such a practice much 
good may be done with a little money. 

TWELF TH 

Stick to it steadily. 

TH I R TEE NTH 




Moral and political rights sometimes ~^ 
differ, and are sometimes both subdued 
by might. 



FOUR TEE NTH 



Friends have been my treasure. 




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SEPTEMBER 

F I F T B E NTH 

There are minds who would give credit 
to a man that lived 3000 years ago, or at 
3000 leagues distance, rather than to a 
neighbor, or even to a friend. 

SIXTEEN T H 



Never be discouraged. 

SE VENTEE NTH 




"Blessed are the peacemakers," is, I 
suppose, to be understood in the other 
world, for in this they are frequently 
cursed. 

EI G H TEENTH 



The truth may not always be proper. 



NINE TEENTH 




The surest way to obtain liberal help 
from others is vigorously to help our- 
selves. 



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SEPTEMBER 
TWENTI E TH 

When I was a boxing boy, it was al- 
lowed, even after an enemy said he had 
enough, to give him a rising blow. 

TWENTY- F I RS T 

Time will smooth away all difficulties. 

TWENTY- SECOND 

Frauds are vastly more pernicious 
than simple thefts. 

TWENTY-THIRD 

Reconciliation is a sweet expression. 
TWENTY- FO U R TH 

None abuse confidence but those who 
possess it. 

TWENTY- F I F TH 
Let all your things have their places. 






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SEPTEMBER 

TWENTY- SIXTH 

Let us mind our own business. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

Hope and faith may be more firmly 
grounded upon charity, than charity upon 
hope and faith. 

TWENTY- E I GH TH 



He that has once done you a kindness 
will be more ready to do you another 
than he whom you yourself have obliged. 

TWE N TY-N I N TH 




jj Virtue is not secure until its practice 
has become a habitude. 

THIRTIETH 




How much more profitable it is pru- 
dently to remove, than to resent, return, 
and continue inimical proceedings ! 



OCTOBER 

A little neglect may cause a great mischief: 
for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of 
a shoe the horse was lost ; for want of a horse 
the rider was lost. 




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OCTOBER 



FIRST 



Early to bed and early to rise 

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 

SECOND 

The whim suited me better from the 
cheapness of it. 

TH/RP 

If you were a servant, would you not 
be ashamed that a good master should 
catch you idle ? Are you not your own 
master? 

FOURTH 

The prejudices of disrespect between 
nations prevail only among the inferior 
ranks. 

FIFTH 

Be always employed in something 1 
useful. 






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OCTOBER 



SIXTH 





The philanthropist, who wishes the 
good of his own country and of mankind, 
must be the bulrush bending to the 
storm, and not the sturdy oak, unavail- 
ingly resisting. 

SB V B NTH 

Few in public affairs act with a view 
to the good of mankind. 

B I GHTH 

God will certainly reward virtue and 
punish vice, either here or hereafter. 

NINTH 

The judgment of a whole people, es- 
pecially of a free people, is looked upon 
as infallible. 

TBNTH 



Men I find to be a sort of beings very 
W~ ) badly constructed. 



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OCTOBER 



E LE VENTH 



Great affairs sometimes take their rise 
from small circumstances. 

TWELF TH 



Americans do not enquire concerning 
a stranger, What is he ? but, What can 
he do? 

TH I R TEENT H 



Lost time is never found again. 



FOUR TEEN TH 



I made myself as tidy as I could. 



F I F T E E NT H 



Let kind offices go round. 



SIXTEENTH 



Trust not too much to others. 





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OCTOBER 

SEVENTEENTH 

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined 
with Poverty, and supped with Infamy. 

El G H TEENTH 

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor 
ever resign an office. 





NINE TEENTH 

History is full of the errors of states 
and princes. 

TWENT I E TH 

When men are employed they are 
best contented. 

TWENTY- FIRS T 

Disputing, contradicting, and confuting 
people are generally unfortunate in their 
affairs. 



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OCTOBER 

TWENTY- SECOND 



Human felicity is produced not so 
much by great pieces of good fortune 
that seldom happen as by little advan- 
tages that occur every day. 

TWENTY-THIRD 



Not knowing but that he might be in 
the right, I let him enjoy his opinions, 
which I take to be the best way. 

TWENTY- F O U R T H 




Without virtue man can have no hap- 
piness. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 



I think no pleasure innocent that is to 
man hurtful. 

TWENTY- SIXTH 



Here comes the orator with his flood 
of words and his drop of reason. 




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TWENTY- SB VENTH 

Money is necessary to introduce econ- 
omy, while, at the same time, economy 
is necessary to obtain money. 

TWENTY- EI G H TH 

No man is wise at all times and in all 
things, but some are more frequently 
wise than others. 

TWEN TY-NI NTH 

I love company, chat, a laugh, a glass, 
and even a song as well as ever. 

THIRTIETH 

I made that man my enemy by doing 
him too much kindness. It is the hon- 
estest way of acquiring an enemy. 

TH I R TY - FIRS T 

What repeated follies are repeated 
wars ! 



NOVEMBER 

Alexander and Caesar, those renowned generals, 
received more faithful services, and performed 
greater actions, by means of the love their soldiers 
bore them, than they probably would have done, if 
instead of being beloved and respected, they had 
been hated and feared. 






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NOVEMBER 



FIRS T 



While a party is carrying on a general 
design, each man has his particular pri- 
vate interest in view. 

SECOND 



Handle your tools without mittens. 
THIRD 



Contrary habits must be broken, and 
good ones acquired and established, be- 
fore we can have any dependence on a 
steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. 




FOURTH 



Few in public affairs act from a mere 
view of the good of their country, what- 
ever they may pretend. 



F I F TH 



Now I have a sheep and a cow every- ■ 
body bids me good-morrow. 





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NOVEMBER 



SIXTH 



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Foes counteract the mischief flatterers 



might do us. 



EIGHTH 




Nothing in human affairs and schemes 
is perfect, and perhaps that is the cause 
of our opinions. 

NINTH 

I think all the heretics I have known 
have been virtuous men. 

TENTH 

People that lead a long life and drink 
to the bottom of the cup must expect 
some of the dregs. 



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NOVEMBER 
ELEVENTH 

If our desires are to the things of this 
world, they are never to be satisfied. 

TWELF TH 

Let each part of your business have 
its time. 

T H I R TEENTH 

Even if I could conceive that I had 
completely overcome pride, I should 
probably be proud of my humility. 

FO U RTEENTH 

There could not be a more potent 
counterpoise to the designs of ambitious 
men than a multitude that feared and 
hated ambition. 

FIF TEENTH 
Who dainties love shall beggars prove. 



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SIXTEENTH 

Enemies serve to put us upon correct- 
ing the faults we have, and avoiding 
those we are in danger of having. 

S E V ENTEENTH 



So convenient a thing is it to be a 
reasonable creature, since it enables one 
to make a reason for everything one has 
a mind to. 

El G H TEENTH 



In success be moderate. 



NINE TEENTH 



For these fifty years past no one has 
ever heard a dogmatical expression es 
cape me. 

TWENTl E TH 




A fat kitchen makes a lean will. 



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NOVEMBER 

TWENTY- Ef RS T 

There is neither sin nor shame in 
knitting a pair of stockings. 

TWENTY- S ECOND 

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, 
and integrity in dealings" between man 
and man were of the utmost importance 
to the felicity of life. 

TWE NTY-TH I R D 

The second vice is lying, the first is 
running in debt. 

TWENTY- ED ITRTH 

If time be of all things the most pre- 
cious, wasting time must be the greatest 
prodigality. 

TWENTY- El ETH - 

The married state is, after all our 
jokes, the happiest, being conformable 
to our natures. 




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NOVEMBER 

TWENTY- SIXTH 

Lazy workmen are commonly ob- 
served to be more extravagant in their 
demands than the industrious, for, if they 
have not more for their work, they can 
not live as well. 

/ TWENTY - S EV ENT H 

There never was, and never will be, a 
good war nor a bad peace. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 



The foundation of all virtue and hap- 
piness is thinking rightly. 

TWENTY-NINTH 



So pursue pleasure as not to give for 
it more than it is worth. 

T H I R TIE T H 




I have long been accustomed to re- 
ceive more blame, as well as more 
praise, than I have deserved. 



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DECEMBER 

If we were as industrious to become good as to 
make ourselves great, we should become really 
great by being good. 









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DECEMBER 



FIRS T 



The use of money is all the advantage 
there is in having money. ^" 



SECOND 



There 's small revenge in words, but 
words may be greatly revenged. 



THIRD 

There 's nothing better to be said 
Than that they 've eat up all their bread, 
Drunk all their drink, and gone to bed. 

FO U RTH 




Necessity knows no law. I know 
some attorneys of the name. 



F I F TH 



Poverty often deprives a man of all 
spirit and virtue. | 





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DECEMBER 



SIXTH 





Kindness from men I can only return 
on their fellow men. 

5 E V E NTH 

The pleasures in this world are rather 
from God's goodness than our own merit. 

EI G H T H 

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to 
thy enemy to gain him. 

NINTH 

Light up the candle of industry and 
economy. 

TENTH 



I When employed in serving others, I 
do not look upon myself as conferring 



favors, but as paying debts. 



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DECEMBER 

ELE VBNTH 

Lose no time. 

TV/ELF T H 

I made it a rule to forbear all direct 
contradiction to the sentiments of others, 
and all positive assertion of my own. 

T H I R TEENTH 

The more affectionate relations are to 
each other, the more they are respected 
by the rest of the world. 

FO U RT EEN T H 

Work while it is called to-day. 

F I F TEENTH 

It is hard for an empty bag to stand ' 
upright. 



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DECEMBER 

SIX TEEN T H 

Suppositions, however ingenious, are 
often mere mistakes. 

S E YEN TEEN T H 

A man is not completely born until he 
is dead. 

EI G H T E E NTH 



I was surprised to find myself so much 
fuller of faults than I had imagined. 





NINE TEENTH 

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle. 

TWEN T I E T H 

A benevolent man should allow a few 
faults in himself, to keep his friends in 
countenance. 

TWENTY- EI R S T 

The diligent spinner has a long shift. 



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DECEMBER 

TWENTY- SECOND 

No qualities are so likely to make a 
poor man's fortune as those of probity 
and integrity. 

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If two persons equal in judgment play 
for a considerable sum, he that loves 
money most will lose. 

TWENTY - F O U R T H 

Increase in me that wisdom which dis- 
covers my truest interest. 

TWENTY- F I F T H 



Let no pleasures tempt thee, no profit 
allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no 
example sway thee, no persuasion move 
thee to do anything which thou knowest 
to be evil ; so shalt thou live jollily, for a 
good conscience is a continual Christ- 
mas. 






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DECEMBER 

TWENTY- SIXTH 

Nothing is so likely to make a man's 
fortune as virtue. 

TWENTY- SEVENTH 

Vicious habits are not hurtful because 
they are forbidden, but forbidden because 
they are hurtful. 

TWENTY- EIGHTH 

It is time for an old man, as I am, to 
be thinking of his great remove. 

TWENTY-NINTH 

It is pleasant to see the world growing 
better and happier. 

T H I R TIE TH 

There will be sleeping enough in the 
grave. 

TH I R TY- F I RS T 

In looking back, how short the time 
seems ! 






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